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Papyrus 2102
- Record Id:
- 040-003711587
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109808442.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467251.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2102
- Title:
- Family Letter (SB III 6263, TM 27792)
- Scope & Content:
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Double letter from Sempronius to his mother Saturnila and his brother Maximus; with address on the back, the addressee being Maximus only.
Lines 1-17: Letter to Saturnila from Sempronius, with expressions of affection and enquiring about her health. Semponius urges her to send news, as she has not replied to any of his numerous letters. Greetings to other members of the family conclude the letter.
Line 18-end: Letter from Sempronius to Maximus, kindly reproaching him for his and their brothers’ inconsiderate conduct towards their mother, who ought to be respected, and apologising for chiding him.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003711587 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2102 : Family Letter (SB III 6263, TM 27792) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1962]/040-003711587
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- One medium-brown papyrus sheet, originally in two fragments, lacking part of the right-hand edge; damaged along the central horizontal fold and the first vertical fold; written on both sides. On the front, there are 31 lines written across the fibres, with blank space to separate line 17 from line 18; all margins survive; the lower margin is minimal and the right margin is damaged. On the back, there are two lines written across the fibres, with the seal pattern. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with an opening to show the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467251.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- late 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 323 x 202 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 380 x 250 mm.
Script: Proficient and regular upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2078-2102 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in April 1919.
- Former External References:
- SB III 6263
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum, 1933), p. 373.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘Some private letters of the Roman period from the London Collection’, Revue égyptologique N.S. 1 (1919), 199-209 (203-206, no. 2).
A. Deissmann, Licht vom Osten: das Neue Testament und die neuentdeckten Texte der hellenistisch-römischen Welt (Tübingen: Mohr, 1923, 2nd ed.), pp. 159-160.
Wilhelm Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil; Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmann, 1923), p. 73.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter, 1926), no. 6263.
Arthur S. Hunt, Campbell C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann, 1932), pp. 318-321, no. 121.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1933), p. 123.
John G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1933), pp. 48-49.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘A Happy Family’, in Aus Antike und Orient. Festschrift Wilhelm Schubart zum 75. Geburtstag, ed. by Siegfried Morenz (Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1950), pp. 38-47.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958), p. 177.
Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, ‘A Happy Family?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 21 (1976), 169-181.
Farid Farouk, ‘Sarapis-proskynema in the Light of SB III 6263’, in Actes du XVe Congrès International de Papyrologie. IV, ed. by Jean Bingen, Georges Nachtergael, Eric G. Turner (Bruxelles: Fondation égyptologique Reine Élisabeth 1979) pp. 141-147.
Orsolina Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1988), p. 577 no. 16.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 324.
Jane Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), pp. 143-147.
Francisco Barrenechea, ‘A New Document from the Sempronius Dossier: A Letter from Maximus’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 38 (2001), 21-34.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 199.
Antonia Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2017), p. 301.
Willy Clarysse, ‘Emotions in Greek private papyrus letters’, Ancient Society 47 (2017), 63-86 (p. 70).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)